Elvis Costello & Steve Nieve: 8 p.m. Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, March 12, 14 and 15, at Park West, 322 W. Armitage Ave., ...
Jimmy Page's decision to break the chains of being a muzak session musician to form the eight-legged rock behemoth known to the globe as Led Zeppelin remains one of rock's most significant moments.
As cover, Led Zeppelin told the press that an illness kept Jones out of the sessions, a story they stuck with even after the album's release. "John Paul Jones wasn't well and we had to cancel the ...
In retrospect, it makes sense that backing Bassey would prove formative: So much of Led Zeppelin was about power, poise and drama (or melodrama, if you think of the first album’s overwrought ...
Rock’n’roll musicians have a habit of thinking of themselves like secular gods, but the truth is they’re not infallible. No matter how successful a band may or may not have been in the past ...
A new documentary about the band’s early days offers a rich backdrop to an unlikely performance of a star on the rise.
Recorded at 15 different studios over a 10-year period at a cost exceeding $13 million Chinese Democracy is the most ...
Welcome to Defector Music Club, where a number of our writers get together to dish about an album. Today, Israel Daramola, Dave McKenna, Ray Ratto, David Roth, and Lauren Theisen discuss Led ...
Attempts to capture the show for a concert film were unsuccessful, although in 2000 a live album named Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall: Live 1980-1981 was released. Led Zeppelin were feeling ...